Keith Williams Architects was founded in January 2001. The firm is a multi-award winning architectural design and masterplanning practice with a growing international reputation for the excellence of its projects. Recipient of more than 25 major design and construction awards for its built projects, Keith Williams Architects is the only firm to have twice won the prestigious BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award in both 2006 & 2008.
KWA is one of the UK’s leading specialist designers of performing arts venues, museum, gallery and civic buildings, with a significant track record in the design and delivery of exemplary projects across a range of scale and geographic locations. The firm specialises in the design and delivery of complex urban projects in sensitive heritage environments which include UNESCO sites and other sites of historical importance.
Keith WIlliams’ has spent much of his career creating sensitive public buildings and has a fundamental belief in the civilising qualities of fine architecture and spaces on all those with whom they engage, whether actual users of the building or those who experience it from elsewhere within the city.
Based in the firm’s central London studio, Keith Williams personally initiates and oversees the design of all of the firm’s projects, which are developed and implemented with technical director, Richard Brown and the support of key senior architectural staff.
Each new project is developed in close consultation with the firm’s clients, ensuring that every scheme is as closely tailored to client need, delivery and to the highest possible quality that project budgets can provide.
Keith Williams Architects’ core range of skills include:
•Leading Specialist in museums and art galleries
• Working within or close to historic buildings
•Sustainable building design
•Urban design and masterplan strategies
•Design Team Leadership
•Full architectural services from inception to completion
•Interior Design
•Space planning services
The firm works across a broad range of sectors primarily for public clients, including civic and museum buildings, schemes for the performing and visual arts, higher education and studies in urban masterplanning.
The firm has been successful in numerous high profile architectural competitions both national and international, and its work has been published worldwide. The first major monograph on the firm’s work, “Keith Williams : Architecture of the Specific” was published in January 2010 by Images Publishing of Melbourne, Australia.